From: Richard Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 07/23/03-09:19:33 AM Z
Sorry about Russ Young being cut short. He had his allotted time. Arentz
and Shreiber had problems with the computer projection system and did run
over but Russ had extra time to make up for it. Dr Stulik was making
another presentation at 5:00 and everyone needed to get over to his talk in
another room. It would have been an insult to both Russ Young and Dusan
Stulik to make them compete for an audience.
We were quite proud to have the Getty there. In reality they invited
themselves to speak. Somehow the buzz about APIS had reached the inner
sanctum of the Getty! Stulik is the Senior Scientist of the Getty Research
Institute and we were perhaps a tad overly protective about his second
talk, but hey, this was the Getty!
In my conversations with Dr Stulik he made it quite clear that he and the
Getty want to work very closely with APIS in the future. They view the alt
process workers like Luther Gerlach or Stuart Melvin (among many others,
they are just examples) as valuable resources. Photo historians may know
something of the history but when it comes to the actual process work there
isn't a better resource than someone who actually does it. He views these
people as keepers of the flame and preserving these processes by keeping
them alive. This then leads to the issue of conservation. As Dr Stulik
pointed out, it is hard to identify, conserve, and preserve an image if one
does not know what it is and how it might have been made.
Without going into details I think APIS and alt photo is going to make a
leap forward with this relationship.
--Dick Sullivan
At 08:00 AM 7/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Chris,
>
> > PS Don Bryant, was this post in keeping with your saying I talk too much?
>:)
>
>As long as you don't reveal our secret marriage in Santa Fe talk as much as
>you want.
>
>BTW, about APIS.
>
>First of all let me say that Stuart Melvin is a very nice guy and is not
>what I would call an egotistical self promoter. He isn't as self serving as
>some people in the industry. I'm not a gum printer so I can't critique his
>technique but it is my opinion that his method was developed to allow very
>translucent layers to be applied to platinum prints giving more control to
>the density of the finished print. This seems to require more work depending
>on the desired result. Some of the gums shown by others seemed to be dark
>and stained by comparison to Stuart's. Sam Wang's prints and images were
>wonderful.
>
>David Hoptman showed some wonderful photogravures made with the Solar Plate
>materials and we were able to observe him making two prints at Santa Fe
>college. Wish I could find someone locally with an etching press!
>
>Russ Young got the short end of the stick in my opinion, he was the last
>speaker at APIS and there was no reason to cut his fascinating presentation
>short. Although he had given the same presentation in Bath last year it was
>new to most of us this year.
>
>Terry King announced on the B&S web board a while back that he would be
>revealing a new material for producing inkjet negatives. I never heard
>anything about it.
>
>Does anyone have the drop counts for the NA2 chart that Dick Arentz showed?
>I didn't take notes in his segment thinking there might be a handout.
>
>Zoe Zimmerman gave a very low tech presentation and I enjoyed her work a
>lot. She seems to have distain for recognition or fame and has no interest
>in the internet. I think she is a country girl at heart.
>
>The meeting rooms at APIS just didn't work for me. The lighting was lousy
>(all fluorescent) and the room acoustics were also poor and the rooms at
>times were quite stuffy.
>
>Michael Kravitz had some beautiful platinum prints and the one made from and
>Epson 2200 looked great.
>
>Mark Enders inkjet nudes were quite nice also. I can't wait to hear about
>his new inkjet invention.
>
>Keith Schreiber's colorizing method for inkjet negs looked promising and I
>will give it a go.
>
>Nathan Condon (I hope I got his name correct) showed some really beautiful
>platinum prints also.
>
>
>Don
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